Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 16:07:46 -0500 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Vijay Ramasubramanian <ramasubr@ews.uiuc.edu>, Mike Grommet <mgrommet@insolwwb.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installation probs w/3.0-BETA Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19981014160746.0105f178@207.227.119.2> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810132312140.24894-100000@shell.uniserve.c a> References: <3.0.3.32.19981014004150.0103ae24@207.227.119.2>
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At 11:15 PM 10/13/98 -0700, Tom wrote: > Or use parity SIMM/DIMM and then there is zero guess work. Rather than >a mysterious non-reproducable crash, you will get a parity failed panic. >Everyone should use parity memory all the time. True, but how many actually do install parity memory in their servers, let alone workstations. Had I waited one week longer for a 128MB DIMM, the price dropped enough to where I would have paid the same for parity. Not a server, which should have parity, but paying 50% more for a workstation... > Just like any other FreeBSD app: as much as is available. Since the >install does a lot of i/o most of memory will probably put to work as a >disk cache. Though so. Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking jeff@mountin.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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